We performed a comparison between Trend Micro Apex One and CrowdStrike Falcon based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Trend Micro Apex One stands out for its centralized reporting, efficient policy implementation, and a diverse array of features including DLP, encryption, and patch management. Trend Micro Apex One users say the platform should improve its compatibility with different operating systems and address performance issues. Users also say the reporting, forensic analysis, and ransomware features could use some work. CrowdStrike Falcon stands out for its machine-learning capabilities, optimal resource utilization, and precise threat detection. CrowdStrike Falcon could benefit from adding a sandbox feature and more detailed firewall management options.
Service and Support: Trend Micro support generally earned positive reviews, but some said that support could be more proactive and respond faster. CrowdStrike Falcon's customer service is considered prompt and helpful.
Ease of Deployment: Most users thought Trend Micro Apex One was easy to set up, but a few said that it’s more complex than competing solutions. CrowdStrike Falcon's setup is considered to be simple and efficient, with deployment times ranging from a few days to a month. While there may be some challenges during installation, they are generally manageable.
Pricing: Some considered the price of Trend Micro Apex One to be fair, while others found it expensive. Reviews of CrowdStrike's pricing were similarly mixed. Some find it costly and think the price should be lowered to make it more competitive.
ROI: Trend Micro Apex One provides extra cost-effective advantages and safeguards vital information. CrowdStrike Falcon offers cost savings by decreasing the required number of engineers and eliminating the need for onsite servers.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Trend Micro Apex One over CrowdStrike Falcon. Apex One also stands out for its centralized reporting and threat intelligence network. User reviews indicate that Apex One is favored due to its easy setup, responsive support, and comprehensive feature set.
"It is stable and scalable."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"CrowdStrike Falcon's most valuable features are the lightweight agent which has absolutely zero performance issues. There is no performance deterioration on the laptop on the network. It is a signature-less antivirus and anti-malware solution, it doesn't depend on signatures which better protects the systems."
"Falcon's best feature is its detection and blocking of threats."
"It is an easy product to deploy."
"The Protect functionality on the laptops provides great visibility into what's occurring, and the cloud management of the platform is what we needed."
"It's ability to do threat hunting is really great, quite robust, and even allows you to do hygiene stuff."
"The features I like the most are the response time and the dashboard are both excellent."
"The most valuable aspects of CrowdStrike Falcon for me are its device observability, identification, and software and OS recognition."
"The scalability is good."
"The most favorable features have been behavior monitoring and zero-day threat protection."
"Apex One includes a built-in fine-grained DLP solution."
"It provides comprehensive visibility into all client logs and seamlessly integrates with other products, such as CM."
"No down time in terms of the backend having to be updated because it's on cloud."
"The number of accessories included is the most valuable feature."
"The antivirus itself is also lightweight. It does not hamper the performance. It is not resource-hungry. It does not impact the overall performance of the device. It is just there, and it is easy to use."
"Web reputation and behavior monitoring are valuable features, as they allow us to control which websites users can visit and download from, and to protect against ransomware."
"he setup is simple."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"Unfortunately, native applications are not supported."
"The management reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"On the firewall management side, there should be more granularity. There should also be more granularity for device control. Everything else is brilliant."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve the EDR functionality. Once the functionality of the solution improves, it will be even better in the market and able to compete with Carbon Black."
"Basically, they don't cover legacy OS or applications. That's the only issue we're concerned about"
"Any kind of integration that you want to do, such as using the API to connect to a SIEM, is complex and it will be expensive to do."
"CrowdStrike Falcon could improve if it became an XDR. When we look only to an end-point, we lost the context of the environment. I know it's another line of design of the product. However, if CrowdStrike becomes an XDR, it could be very good."
"The solution should adjust its pricing for the smaller market we are in."
"It needs a consolidated manager as there are too many parts to currently manage it."
"We sometimes face issues with policies and rules while working with Apex One. They sometimes do not work."
"The integration capabilities of the solution could be improved."
"The console can be better in terms of management and viewing the hierarchy of devices. Currently, setting up the hierarchy OU-wise is a bit cumbersome. It can be made a bit easier. If that can be more user-friendly and easier to manage, it would be great."
"I think the one place where we like where they lacking is in a unified style dashboard."
"Apex One could improve endpoint patching. For example, Kaspersky can download Microsoft updates and install them. Having that feature in the cloud application would help a lot."
"The solution could improve security. It is important to always keep the organization secure."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 105 reviews while Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 124 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon writes "Easy to set up with good behavior-based analysis but needs a single-click recovery option". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Apex One writes "Good monitoring and server protection with helpful machine learning". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, whereas Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro Smart Protection and Trellix Endpoint Security. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. Trend Micro Apex One report.
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